On 12/22/2024 I decided to use my SDR and light reading regarding NOAA satellite images captured easily. I decided to put this to the test and although I randomly just started and read post by other people on how their first capture’s of the NOAA APT was not good, I was able to get my first capture on my first try!
Originally, I was using a blog v4 connected to a dipole which was fed through DragonOS vmware on SDR++. Using apps such as Look4Sat, GPredict, NOAA-APT. The two images below are from that setup on my first try.
On 12/23/2024 I once again started. I fired up the popular app Look4Sat on my Samsung s22, Fired up GPredict on DragonOS vmware but this time i switched from my blog v4 running on a horizontal dipole to the SDRmini connected to an omnidirectional small antenna (the same one I been using for NOAA weather radio). The outcome was purely amazing! Also, I tweaked the settings in noaa-apt to get a better final image as you can see from the last two images below.
I also took a quick video of capturing the NOAA 19 satellite as well for a video documentation. I find this very fascinating and will continue to improve on this with my SDR’s.
